Word: chores
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...then considers what an ordeal solitude actually is, despite its perverse and mostly pseudo-intellectual glamour. Then he considers the differences of life in the city and the country (it is not exactly that life is slow but that "a cow is finally just a cow, a chore is after all a chore, there is small possibility of what is called in the city 'advancement.'... [and] if you keep putting some of them off, you may get away with having to do fewer of them in the end"), the habits of the turtle he has captured, and the strange fondness...
...actor recuperating at his home in Bel Air. Fonda keeps busy with an old passion, painting. Although he received a Best Actor nomination for his role in On Golden Pond, he has no plans to suit up for the Academy Awards in March. In fact, his only immediate chore is to rid himself of his facial hair. "I grew the beard out of defiance," he says. "I made a pact with myself that only when I am well will I shave it off, which I am almost ready...
...view the experience more as a picnic outing than a "sobering ordeal." He worried that the Germans had crushed the ripe pears that he was carrying. Though he spends much of his service playing cards with generals, he is surprised that his fellow prisoners view war as a chore, rather than a "sacred crusade...
...Watson has a chore now, that of leading his team out of what has become an annual rite of passage--the stretch of games during reading period--and into its first over-.500 season in five years...
...conventional wisdom of counterinsurgency, where a 10-to-1 superiority of conventional forces is necessary to defeat guerrilla groups, the 14,000-member Guatemalan army will not be large enough to do the job. Lucas talks of expanding his forces to 50,000, a costly chore. The army is also short of such critical items as helicopters and spare parts. Substantial help is unlikely to come from the U.S., despite the Reagan Administration's desire to halt Marxist expansion in Central America. Already concerned about Guatemala's human rights record, Congress undoubtedly would balk at providing...